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Sat, 19 November 2005 23:33

R.Bauer
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kl_tah@hotmail.com wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I was wondering if there's a way to extract a string between inverted
> commas (or any other symbol for that matter) from a longer string in
> idl?
> e.g. extracting just aaaa from the longer string xxxx = 'aaaa'
>
> Thanks,
> KL

concerning this issue we have two routines in our libraray

within_delimiter : This function returns the string within the outermost
matching pair of delimiters

within_brackets: This function returns the string between brackets

you could get it from here

http://www.fz-juelich.de/icg/icg-i/idl_icglib/idl_source/idl _html/dbase/within_delimiter_dbase.pro.html
http://www.fz-juelich.de/icg/icg-i/idl_icglib/idl_source/idl _html/dbase/within_brackets_dbase.pro.html

more routines are described here:
http://www.fz-juelich.de/icg/icg-i/idl_icglib/idl_lib_intro. html

cheers
Reimar

		extracting strings between ' ' By: Koh Leong Tah on Sat, 19 November 2005 15:43
		Re: extracting strings between ' ' By: R.Bauer on Sat, 19 November 2005 23:33
		Re: extracting strings between ' ' By: Benjamin Hornberger on Sat, 19 November 2005 21:22

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